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Auction XVIII  29 Sep 2019
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Lot 393

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 420 GBP
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Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion Æ23. Time of Asander, circa 47-16 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / Pegasos grazing to left; ΠΑΝΤΙΚΑ-ΠΑΙΤΩΝ around. Frolova & Ireland 2002, pl. 26, 1-17; MacDonald 218; SNG BM Black Sea 955-6; HGC 7, 28; overstruck on Pontic Medusa type. 6.42g, 23mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine; overstruck on an earlier type. Rare. Frolova (personal comment) states this to be an Apollo-Asander type with a previously unknown obverse die.

From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);
Acquired from David Miller, May 2002.
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